Re: preseed software raid, one device with many partitions?
On October 29, 2010 07:56:03 am Mario Kleinsasser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would love to, but from my googling it sounds like preseeding software
>
> > raid
> > + LVM is a black art of some sorts. Lots of chatter on google, but not
> > much
> > solid info. If anyone has any examples of this, I'd love to see them.
> >
> > TBH, I don't think the many raid device issue is a breaker, it just
> > "looks"
> > messier then a nice hardware raid /dev/sda device.
>
> We are using the following setting to preseed a LVM configuration during
> netinstaller setup on multiple servers without any issues.
>
> d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
> d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
> d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
> boot-root :: \
> 150 150 150 ext3 \
> $primary{ } $bootable{ } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
> mountpoint{ /boot } \
> . \
> 5120 5120 5120 ext3 \
> $primary{ } method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
> mountpoint{ / } \
> . \
> 500 10000 1000000000 ext3 \
> method{ format } format{ } $lvmok{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
> mountpoint{ /var } \
> . \
> 4096 4096 4096 linux-swap \
> method{ swap } format{ } $lvmok { } \
> .
> d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
> d-i partman/choose_partition \
> select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
>
> This works with the latest Debian 5.0.6. Please try this settings. I you
> want I could post our whole configuration.
> Be careful that you are not missing any dots in the lines!
>
> Mario
I have no issue preseeding an lvm install, what I'd like to do is be able to
create on md0 device (being software raid 1, spanned over 2 disks) and have
that whole md0 device be my lvm partition. Then be able cut up that lvm
partition into usable bits (/boot,/,/home etc)
I haven't been able to find a working preseed example of something like that.
and have had zero luck playing with it for a few days now.
Ryan Braun
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